"My Dreams Have Withered and Died" (Richard and Linda Thompson cover)

If you've never known what it's like to play gooseberry, just ask the acoustic guitar on Marissa Nadler and Angel Olsen's cover of "My Dreams Have Withered and Died". The two singers have pared Richard and Linda Thompson's original (from 1974's I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight) down to the lightest, most glimmering strums, their heavenly voices intertwining to carry the song. Here and there, the lo-fi recording can't contain their combined vocal power, causing a kind of overdriving, burring effect-- as if they were reaching out to lightly scratch you on the shoulder.